Monthly Archives: February 2007
Kaizen for Web Pages
Economist's View: Hal Varian: Kaizen, That Continuous Improvement StrategyHere is a good lean piece from an unlikely source: an economist!Hal Varian (via the...
Reactions to Standardized Work
Food for thought: When working with the concept (or practice) of Standardized Work in my lean experience, it's always been in context of...
Error Proofing Your Meetings
By Dan Markovitz Sometimes it's hard to spot errors in an office, much less error-proof the workspace. With so many value streams...
Nissan Helps Hospitals Too
Nissan News | Nissan's 'shot in the arm' for healthcare sectorIt's not just Toyota working with the Toyota City hospital or GM helping the...
An Open-Access Doctor’s Office
Business Week Article
Here's a good story about how some doctors offices are trying to reduce backlogs and appointment delays, by adopting lean and operations...
"Unavoidable" Plant Closing?
Tecumseh To Close Wisconsin Plant; 320 Employees To Lose Jobs
This is a disappointing article after we normally read such good lean news from the...
Hoshin Kanri
I personally believe that hoshin kanri is generally poorly understood and underrepresented in the lean world. To apply PDCA, the most fundamental improvement practice,...
Made in the USA: TVs
The No-Name Brand Behind the Latest Flat-Panel Price War - New York Times:Another article about the Olevia brand (featured here before), which builds HDTV's...
Bad Lean / 5S Hits the UK Media
A few weeks back, the British media was having a field day with reports of and complaints about what sounds like a horribly misguided...
GM Bows to Pressure
GM agrees to change robot suicide ad after objections - Feb. 9, 2007GM has bowed to pressure from suicide prevention groups, but still doesn't...
2007 Shingo Winners Announced
The Shingo Prize for Excellence in ManufacturingThe manufacturing prize winners have been announced.Please check out my main blog page at www.leanblog.org
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What you Permit, you Promote
StuderGroup - Conversations with Quint StuderAnother great discussion from Quint Studer's management blog (I hate to call it a "healthcare blog" because that might...
